TRAIN DISASTER
IN EASTERN UNITED STATES — FOURTEEN PERSONS KILLED. AT LEAST 89 INJURED. i (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) : (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 24. i The crack Pennsylvania train, Nellie Bly, was derailed on a horsei shoe curve at Delair, New Jersey, I cn Sunday night, killing 14 persons, including two members of the crew, and injuring at least 89 holidaymakers, who were returning to New York from Atlantic City resorts. Railroad officials said the engineer, who was injured, exceeded the speed limit in rounding the curve. The engine plunged from the tracks a thousand yards beyond a vee switch, and slid 100 feet down an embankment, being embedded in the ground. Five of the fourteen carriages followed, one sliding completely on top of the engine, and the others bumping around and collapsing into grotesque wheel-spin-ning wrecks. The accident occurred on the site of a serious wreck two years ago.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 May 1943, Page 2
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153TRAIN DISASTER Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 May 1943, Page 2
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